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Articles on jobs, wages, inequality, recession risk, inflation, public debt, taxes, and broad economic policy.
China wants more trade, reserves, and payment infrastructure to move through the yuan. The yuan is gaining ground around China-linked trade, but the dollar still dominates reserves, payments, FX trading, and trade finance.
The World Bank warns that many developing economies are no longer catching up with richer countries. The shocks include COVID, inflation, debt, conflict, energy prices, food insecurity, trade uncertainty, and climate stress.
A 2026 update on inflation and the national debt, comparing the low-rate housing-crisis aftermath with today's higher-rate, higher-debt economy.
The May 2026 jobs report was stronger than expected, shifting the interest-rate conversation away from cuts and back toward inflation risk.
A 2026 update on whether the economy may avoid recession soon, with labor market, GDP, industrial production, and leading indicator charts.
A 2026 update on global income and wealth per person, comparing the 2012 snapshot with current GDP, wealth, poverty, and inequality data.
There are plenty of reasons to be positive.
Inflation makes paying it off easier
When you look at Capitalism you can't help but look at Game Theory. Players can come to dominate the game. Then the idea that capitalism always achieves maximum gain becomes invalid. There is a role of governments to regulate and adjudicate the game. That is not Socialism, but rather makes the "triumph of capitalism" possible.
If there were a worldwide redistribution of income today in which every man, woman and child earned
As Greece stands on the brink of exiting the Euro and its looming elections ...
Will it really happen?
The main difference is private versus public payrolls
why the Buffet Rule may be important to our future.
We have to answer this question first
Right now, we are experimenting with seeing how much we can do without governance
Half a million in two years.
Charts About Inequality
Well spoken
They go together